Lǐ Qīngzhào 李清照 (1084 – ca. 1155), hào Yì’ān jūshì 易安居士, was the most celebrated woman writer of imperial China, and the foremost master of the cí 詞 lyric in its early Sòng phase. A native of Jǐnán 濟南 (Shāndōng), daughter of Lǐ Géfēi 李格非 (a literary associate of Sū Shì), she married Zhào Míngchéng 趙明誠 in 1101. Together they built the great epigraphic collection that became the Jīnshí lù KR2n0013; she co-compiled and substantially edited it (Zhāng Duānyì’s Guì’ěr jí 貴耳集 explicitly says she “trimmed and brushed” 筆削 the work). After Zhào’s death in 1129 in the Jingkang-era flight south, she preserved and presented the catalogue to court in the early Shàoxīng era, with her famous Hòuxù 後序 — one of the supreme prose pieces of Chinese letters and a major autobiographical document. Her surviving lyrics, mostly preserved in the Lǐ Yì’ān jí 李易安集 (lost in original form, reconstructed from quotations), set the standard for the wǎnyuē 婉約 (delicate-restrained) style. Her birthdate is securely 1084; her death is variously dated, conventionally ca. 1155, though some scholarship favours later. The Egan biography (Harvard Asia Center, 2013) is the standard modern English work.